Domaine Sérénité is an eco-friendly leisure farm just 20 min drive from Clarens, surrounded by the beautiful Lesotho Mountains. It is accessible through 5.5km of unsealed road, 4WD advised when rain. We live 100% off the grid, using windmill turbine and solar panels to generate electricity. Our micro-farm was set up to be energy conscious while allowing very comfortable and luxury accommodation. We hope that during and after your stay you will feel serene, close to nature and energised.

El lugar

Loft Cubic was the first building on the Domaine, that is why it is pretty special in our heart. Loft Cubic can accommodate a couple or a family with one child. The queen bedroom is located upstairs somewhat narrow stairs and offers amazing views and vantage point of the farm and the surrounded mountains. If there stairs are too steep or narrow, there is a very comfortable queen sofa bed is in the living room. The bathroom has a shower. A single undercover garage parking is available. The total surface of the loft, including the patio is 60 meter squares.

Disponible para huéspedes

Our guests will be able to hike and walk around the farm (~60 ha), do not hesitate to ask us for directions for long hikes starting from the cottage.

The vibrant Clarens village is 20 min drive from the farm.

Otros aspectos destacables

There is no wifi or cabled TV. We ask our guest to be electricity conscious as we are fully off the grid!

A 4WD, especially during the rainy season is advisable to reach the property.

We sell organic vegetables from our gardens and eggs from our chickens. If interested, ask us what is is in season prior to your stay!

Domaine Sérénité is a place to unwind and relax. We also offer initiations to taichi chuan (martial art) and meditation in our dojo.

Betty and Huy were both born in Viêt Nam. Betty left the north country when she was 3, as her family was fleeing the war. Huy was born in the South of Viêt Nam. He obtained a prestigious scholarship to study in the South of France (Université de Aix-en-Provence) and emigrated permanently when he was 18. They both met in Aix-en-Provence.
They have two grown-up children. Kim-Anh is an academic researcher who moved to Brisbane, Australia in 2009. She leads her own group in medical research. Vinh moved to the South of France as a blacksmith where he started his own business, forging homemade knives in the traditional Vietnamese way.
In 1990, the little family moved to Réunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean, as they finally could have their jobs in the same city. They used to visit South Africa during some of their holidays, with a first visit in 1997. They were blown away by the beauty and the diversity of the country. It is during this first visit that they discovered Clarens. The idea of retiring in the Free State slowly made its way through … In 2007 they bought a bare piece of land 20km from Clarens. Domaine Sérénité was born. In 2013, when Betty and Huy retired as headmasters of high school they moved to South Africa and called domaine Sérénité their new home.
Huy speaks fluent Vietnamese and French, Betty speaks French and both are now perfectioning their English.